The Apache Pulsar community releases version 2.7.3! 34 contributors provided improvements and bug fixes that delivered 79 commits.
Highlightsโ
Cursor reads adhere to the dispatch byte rate limiter setting and no longer cause unexpected results. PR-11249
The ledger rollover scheduled task runs as expected. PR-11226
This blog walks through the most noteworthy changes. For the complete list including all enhancements and bug fixes, check out the Pulsar 2.7.3 Release Notes.
Notable bug fixes and enhancements
Brokerโ
Cursor reads adhere to the dispatch byte rate limiter setting. PR-9826โ
Issue: When using byte rates, the dispatch rates were not respected (regardless of being a namespace or topic policy).
Resolution: Fixed behavior of dispatch byte rate limiter setting. Cursor reads adhere to the setting and no longer cause unexpected results.
The ledger rollover scheduled task runs as expected. PR-11226โ
Issue: Previously, the ledger rollover scheduled task was executed before reaching the ledger maximum rollover time, which caused the ledger not to roll over in time.
Resolution: Fixed the timing of the ledger rollover schedule, so the task runs only after the ledger is created successfully.
The topic-level retention policy works correctly when restarting a broker. PR-11136โ
Issue: Previously, when setting a topic-level retention policy for a topic and then restarting the broker, the topic-level retention policy did not work.
Resolution: Fixed behavior of the policy so it replays all policy messages after initiating
policyCacheInitMap
and added a retention policy check test when restarting the broker.
The lastMessageId API call no longer causes a memory leak. PR-10977โ
Issue: Previously, there was a memory leak when calling the
lastMessageId
API, which caused the broker process to be stopped by Kubernetes.Resolution: Added the missing entry.release() call to PersistentTopic.getLastMessageId to ensure the broker does not run out of memory.
ZooKeeper reads are cached by brokers. PR-10594โ
Issue: When performing the admin operation to get the namespace of a tenant, ZooKeeper reads were issued on the ZooKeeper client and not getting cached by the brokers.
Resolution: Fixed ZooKeeper caching when fetching a list of namespaces for a tenant.
Monitoring threads that call LeaderService.isLeader()
are no longer blocked. PR-10512โ
- Issue: When
LeaderService
changed leadership status, it was locked with asynchronized
block, which also blocked other threads callingLeaderService.isLeader()
. - Resolution: Fixed the deadlock condition on the monitoring thread so it is not blocked by
LeaderService.isLeader() by modifying
ClusterServiceCoordinatorand
WorkerStatsManagerto check if it is a leader from
MembershipManager`.
hasMessageAvailable
can read messages successfully. PR-10414โ
Issue: When
hasMessageAvailableAsync
returnedtrue
, it could not read messages because messages were filtered byacknowledgmentsGroupingTracker
.Resolution: Fixed the race conditions by modifying
acknowledgmentsGroupingTracker
to filter duplicate messages, and then cleanup the messages when the connection is open.
Proxyโ
Proxy supports creating partitioned topics automatically. PR-8048โ
Issue: Proxies were not creating partitions because they were using the current ZooKeeper metadata.
Resolution: Changed the proxy to handle
PartitionMetadataRequest
by selecting and fetching from an available broker instead of using current ZooKeeper metadata.
Pulsar adminโ
Flag added to indicate whether or not to create a metadata path on replicated clusters. PR-11140โ
Issue: When creating a partitioned topic in a replicated namespace, it did not create a metadata path
/managed-ledgers
on replicated clusters.Resolution: Added a flag (createLocalTopicOnly) to indicate whether or not to create a metadata path for a partitioned topic in replicated clusters.
A topic policy can no longer be set for a non-existent topic. PR-11131โ
Issue: Due to a redirect loop in a topic policy, you can set a policy for a non-existing topic or a partition of a partitioned topic.
Resolution: The fix added an authoritative flag for a topic policy to avoid a redirect loop. You can not set a topic policy for a non-existent topic or a partition of a partitioned topic. If you set a topic policy for a partition of a 0-partition topic, it redirects to the broker.
Discovery service no longer hard codes the topic domain as persistent. PR-10806โ
Issue: When using the lookup discovery service for a partitioned non-persistent topic, it returned zero rather than the number of partitions. The Pulsar client tried to connect to the topic as if it were a normal topic.
Resolution: Implemented
topicName.getDomain().value()
rather than hard codingpersistent.
Now you can use the discovery service for a partitioned, non-persistent topic successfully.
Other connectors can now use the Kinesis Backoff
class. PR-10744โ
Issue: The Kinesis sink connector
Backoff
class in the Pulsar client implementation project in combination with the dependencyorg.apache.pulsar:pulsar-client-original
increased the connector size.Resolution: Added a new class
Backoff
in the function io-core project so that the Kinesis sink connector and other connectors can use the class.
Clientโ
A FLOW
request with zero permits can not be sent. PR-10506โ
- Issue: When a broker received a
FLOW
request with zero permits, an exception was thrown and then the connection was closed. This triggered frequent reconnections and caused duplicate or out-of-order messages. - Resolution: Added a validation that verifies the permits of a
FLOW
request before sending it. If the permit is zero, theFLOW
request can not be sent.
Function and connectorโ
The Kinesis sink connector acknowledges successful messages. PR-10769โ
- Issue: The Kinesis sink connector did not acknowledge messages after they were sent successfully.
- Resolution: Added acknowledgement for the Kinesis sink connector once a message is sent successfully.
Dockerโ
Function name length cannot exceed 52 characters when using Kubernetes runtime. PR-10531โ
- Issue: When using Kubernetes runtime, if a function was submitted with a valid length (less than 55 characters), a StatefulSet was created but it was unable to spawn pods.
- Resolution: Changed the maximum length of a function name from 55 to 53 characters for Kubernetes runtime. With this fix, the length of a function name can not exceed 52 characters.
Dependencyโ
pulsar-admin
connection to proxy is stable when TLS is enabled. PR-10907โ
- Issue:
pulsar-admin
was unstable over the TLS connection because of the Jetty bug in SSL buffering introduced in Jetty 9.4.39. It caused large function jar uploads to fail frequently. - Resolution: Upgraded Jetty to 9.4.42.v20210604, so that
pulsar-admin
connection to proxy is stable when TLS is enabled.
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